Question

Jane and Sarah were watching the evening news when viewers were asked to call in about the city's proposal to raise taxes. Later in the broadcast, the results were posted. Both Jane and Sarah were skeptical of the 68 percent of the viewers who supported the tax increase. They began examining the assumptions behind the proposal, tried to uncover hidden values of the voters, evaluated the evidence on both sides of the controversy, and assessed all conclusions. Jane and Sarah were engaging in _____ thinking.

Answer 1

Answer:

Jane and Sarah were engaging in critical thinking.

Explanation:

• When the brain is fed with data that has multiple faces that need to be recognized, parted and processed separately to reach a simplified thought, the activity that the brain is involved in is called 'critical thinking'
• In the given case, the information that Jane and Sarah are trying to process has several meanings in different contexts. Hence, to come to a conclusion, Jane and Sarah had to go through various facts and process them through critical thinking.